Nick Rennison and Michael Schmidt, in association with Waterstones: Poets on Poets, Carcanet, 1997.
To mark National Poetry, Day Nick Rennison, who compiled the Waterstone's Guide to Poetry, and Michael Schmidt, editorial director of Carcanet, invited a number of contemporary poets to select work by poets of the past, beginning in the late fourteenth century and ending in the early twentieth, and to provide brief headnotes to describe their choices. The result is an anthology with a difference. From Gower to Yeats, from the old and the new worlds, the selectors and the selected converge in a volume of wonderful poetry and rich surprise.
A wonderful book, available for download [at a site which I'm now told installs a virus. Gawd. OK, link deleted, but the book is also for sale, see below.]
[Sorry, should have been clear: the book is also available for purchase on Amazon.co.uk, here.
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4 comments:
would love to read this (if, y'know, they release it in a readable file format...)
That link installs the mtx.exe virus.
Gawd. Thanks, Anon. Of course, if I were not using a Mac I would have known this. Anyway, link deleted, but the book is also available for sale and well worth buying.
A highly surreal event. I actually looked at that book on my Dads bookshelf about three hours ago, picked him up and asked him what it was about!
I think i need to lie down!
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